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CHAPTER IV. 



CAMBRIDGE DAYS AND EARLY MARRIED LIFE. 



r <&£$i ROM Rugby Henry Dixon went, 

 in 1 84 1, to Trinity College, 

 Cambridge ; but there is 

 W5E%M££> nothing to show, so far as I 

 am able to ascertain, that his partiality for 

 horse-racing was acquired, as has so often 

 been the case, from the proximity of 

 Cambridge to Newmarket. At College 

 his life was very studious and retired ; so 

 much so, indeed, as to justify the remark 

 made long subsequently by " Argus " of the 

 Morning Post, that Henry Dixon was " as 

 shy as a woodcock." His predilections were 

 in favour of the Classics, and, as I have 

 already said, he had no taste or faculty for 

 shining in Mathematics. Unfortunately the 

 same deadly foe — ophthalmia — which had 

 marred his Rugby career, interfered not a 



